A patio swing costro is a comforting and relaxing place to sit and watch the sunset or just enjoy the gentle breeze and tranquility of a summer day. When designing a swing, try to create a design that inspires this mood. You want the chair to be comfortable and relaxing, but you do not want it to lean too far back. This makes the swing uncomfortable when it hung.

Design your patio swing costro. Collect pictures on porch swings from home and garden magazines. Choose some you like and circle the things you like about them in terms of shape. Draw on your checked paper a horizontal line to represent the bottom of the chair (as if viewing it from one side). Use a scale ratio of two squares for each foot, and make your chair bottom four squares long.

Place the graduation disc at the bottom of this line, so that the gradient center lines align with one end. Then make a mark at the 95 degree bar on the gradient board. Use a ruler to draw a straight line with a ruler from one end of the horizontal line up to this mark. Darker the line so it crosses six squares so it will be three feet long. This is the back rest of the patio swing costro. Draw another horizontal line that is 10 squares long to make your porch swing five feet long.